Ruling — Shadows over Camelot

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What needs to be placed on the table before the first round begins?

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To set up the game, the following items must be placed on the table: 1. The Master gameboard of Camelot and its surroundings in the center of the table [1]. 2. The punched-out Quests for Excalibur, the Holy Grail, and Lancelot & the Dragon next to the Master gameboard [1]. 3. The miniatures of Excalibur, the Holy Grail, and Lancelot's Armor on their respective spots on these Quests [1]. 4. A Reserve containing 12 Siege Engines, 4 Saxons, 4 Picts, and 16 double-sided Swords next to the gameboard [1]. 5. Each player's Coat of Arms face up next to them [2]. 6. A six-sided die with the (four) face visible on the spot reserved for it [2]. 7. Each Knight's miniature on its designated seat at the Round Table [2]. 8. The Black card draw pile on the designated spot in Camelot [2]. 9. The White card draw pile on the designated spot in Camelot [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook · p.6 · Swords of the Round Table · Object of the game

[2] RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook · p.7 · Object of the game · Important Note

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 260 ms · ask 7669 ms · total 184738 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 176800 ms · generation 7938 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 560 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 560 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 7, 2026 08:05

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
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#2	RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook (corpus doc 560)		p.8	0.048387 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook (corpus doc 560)	Swords of the Round Table · Object of the game	p.6	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook (corpus doc 560)	Object of the game · Important Note	p.7	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook (corpus doc 560)	First player · Order of the turn · The two Phases · Game Turn Overview	p.9	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook (corpus doc 560)	Important Note · Joining in Mid-Game · Expert Rules · The Squire , s Challenge · The Traitor Among Us	p.18	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook (corpus doc 560)	Three Brave Knights␣	p.19	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook (corpus doc 560)	Lancelot & the Dragon's Quest · Familiarizing yourself with key components · Cards · Coats of Arms	p.4	0.029412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook (corpus doc 560)	Swords of the Round Table · Object of the game	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Shadows over Camelot — Rulebook (corpus doc 560)	Object of the game · Important Note	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 260 ms · first delta 6102 ms · total 184738 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 176800 ms · retrieval 260 ms · ask 7669 ms · gateway work 7938 ms · total 184738 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4126
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 238
tok/sec: 134.8 tok/sec — 238 output tokens in 1.766 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 4s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 492), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.